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Empire's Companion : Virgilian Epics from Colonial Iberoamerica.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valdivieso, Erika.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Latin.
- Historical poetry, Classical.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- A study of how Latin poetry shaped colonial aspirations in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century South and Central America.Accompanying Iberian colonizers to the Americas, Virgil's Aeneid inspired generations of colonial elites to write their own epic poems in Latin--priming imaginations for Spanish and Portuguese rule in the Americas.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9780226848273
- OCLC:
- 1597391148
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